Same for "Islam is right about women" flyer -- both are labeled "hate-filled flyers" by the University, and apparently the police and the FBI are investigating the distribution of the flyers.
Episode 7 of Free Speech Rules, from UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
Sealed litigation is a rare exception to American courts' normal rule of public access.
Lawsuits are matters of public record -- and you generally can't hide them from prospective business partners, employers, house buyers, or others.
But the technical nature of the decision might not stop future lawsuits.
Plus: The ACLU sues the FBI, divorce rates are at 40-year low, and more...
Twitter has made a bad decision when it comes to banning political ads from its site. They should trust users to decide what is right or wrong.
Attacks and threats by elected officials lead to inevitable self-censorship.
Citing the First Amendment, the judge tells the sheriff he may not force certain homes to display signs warning trick-or-treaters to stay away.
"This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically 'woke,' and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly."
The 21-year-old faces criminal punishment for text messages to her suicidal boyfriend.
A girl in a Maine public high school wrote this on a sticky note in a girls' bathroom; she was suspended for "bullying" a male student who was apparently seen as the target of the message—but a federal judge has stayed the suspension, concluding her speech was probably constitutionally protected.
Most respondents, especially millennials, favored viewpoint-based censorship, suppression of "hurtful or offensive" speech in certain contexts, and legal penalties for wayward news organizations.
The FDA finally has agreed to allow a mild statement about the relative hazards of snus and cigarettes.
An interesting court opinion, though I think on balance mistaken.
"[Anne King's ex-husband], [Washington County Sheriff's Department] Captain King, feeling upset and 'disrespected' over the post, contacted Washington County's magistrate court about initiating a criminal complaint against Ms. King."
"The more research Mr. Rigg did for the book, the more discrepancies appeared."
She didn't break the law or threaten anybody, but her school still panicked.
Plus: Cryptocurrency crashes, prison abuse protests in Florida, the death of the center-right, and more...
Another show trial for Facebook's beleaguered CEO
In his new manifesto The Three Dimensions of Freedom, the veteran punk rocker calls out libertarians for focusing solely on economic freedom. Is his case worth buying?
The state's hate crimes law—a "rarely enforced relic dating to 1917"—eviscerates free speech.
Gutting Section 230 would make it harder to track drug deals, not easier.
I have an op-ed about this today in the N.Y. Daily News.
The bill is an obvious First Amendment violation says Jim Manley of the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Defining a company with political branding is risky business.
Plus: Court says scraping social media profiles is not hacking, and more...
Defining terms is tricky, particularly when governments with bad track records on privacy want to call the shots.
The Reason Roundtable analyzes an establishment smear against a foreign policy heretic, and laments the bipartisan panic against online speech.
"Antifa and the Far Right," he adds, are "good for nothing."
For once, the Trump administration is on the right side of a debate with Congress over trade.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal would give journalists special federal protections that they don't need.
James called Trump a "bum," but he won't utter a single bad word about China's authoritarianism.
"University of Louisville [current and former] students ... asserted a claim that the publication of Katina Powell's book Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen resulted in a tortious diminution in the value of their University of Louisville education."
Nah, the senator's still wrong about Internet free speech, argue the editors on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
But they might be mad at mom for writing about them in The New York Times.
Plus: Trump murder meme makes waves, California requires abortion pill at public universities, and more...
Are parents liable for defamation by their minor children?
"Mumbai’s cyber police department seeks to remove content [containing obviously PhotoShopped images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi] hosted on this [Northern Ireland] blog, BuzzFeed, Google Blogger, Amazon CloudFront, Tumblr, and Flickr."
As always, the best answer to bad speech is more speech, not censorship.
This week's demonstrations at NBA games are a refreshing reminder that Americans won't just "stick to sports."
"The logical conclusion of Plaintiff's argument is that whenever someone sues for defamation because of potentially embarrassing comments, the plaintiff should be allowed to sue anonymously and with the case under seal."
The gaming company suspended Chung Ng Wai for a year and confiscated his prize money after he said "Liberate Hong Kong."
Apparently the NBA's kow-towing to Communist China is not limited to groveling press statements.
A Maine court said this would violate the private investigator's First Amendment rights, even if the police concluded the statements were false, unless they were also found to have been knowingly or recklessly false -- but should even a finding of knowing falsehood be enough?
The Court of Appeals concluded, I think correctly, that the statute went beyond punishable threats of violence, and beyond punishable blackmail, to cover constitutionally protected demands.
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